Samburu language
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| Samburu Sampur, ɔl Maa |
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| Spoken in: | Kenya | |
| Region: | Samburu district of Rift Valley Province | |
| Total speakers: | 128,000 (147,000 including the Camus) | |
| Language family: | Nilo-Saharan Eastern Saharan Eastern Nilotic Lotuxo-Teso Lotuxo-Maa Maa Samburu |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | ssa | |
| ISO 639-3: | saq | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Samburu is the Eastern Nilotic, North Maa language spoken by the Samburu in the highlands of northern Kenya. The Samburu number about 128,000 (or 147,000 including the Camus/Chamus). Samburu is closely related to Camus (88% to 94% lexical similarity; Camus is sometimes considered a Samburu dialect) and to the South Maa language Maasai (77% to 89% lexical similarity). The word Samburu itself derives from the old Maa word 'saamburr' for the leather bag the Samburu use.
[edit] References
- Rainer Vossen. The Eastern Nilotes: Linguistic and Historical Reconstructions. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag 1982. ISBN 3496006986.
[edit] External links
- Ethnologue report on Samburu
- Samburu language at The Rosetta Project
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